Last week, Jennifer Doudna, the 2020 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, gave a fascinating talk to an online audience of more than 1,600 viewers. She shared her journey in co-developing the powerful genome-editing technology CRISPR and its potential to improve diagnosis and treatment of COVID-19. Doudna’s co-discovery of CRISPR-Cas9 genetic engineering technology has disrupted human and […]
Considering the current infection trends in Yolo and Sacramento counties, we will not be moving on to Phase 3 until our saliva testing facility scales up. However, we will have an incremental research ramp-up to Phase 2x effective October 30, 2020. Details of the Phase 2 were shared in our earlier guidance. Implementations of the […]
Please join us for a conversation on how new approaches in team science are leading to unprecedented advances in research outcomes across disciplines. Panelists will include Vice Chancellor for Research Prasant Mohapatra, Dean Allison Brashear from the School of Medicine and Dean Michael Lairmore from the School of Veterinary Medicine. Prasant Mohapatra will also provide an update on the […]
Guest Speaker Jennifer Doudna, Ph.D. Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator at UC Berkeley Founder of the Innovative Genomics Institute Recipient of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the development of a method for genome editing, CRISPR-Cas9 Talk Title CRISPR and Coronavirus Event Details Date: Friday, October 30, 2020 Time: 10:30 to 11:45 a.m. Location: […]
In mid-March, researchers at UC Davis were asked to adjust or reduce their work when possible in order to limit social contact and minimize the spread of the novel coronavirus. This “ramp down” meant that some campus research was postponed. For researchers with extramural funding, this lost productivity may mean funding will run out before […]
By Lisa Howard Precision medicine, an approach that uses information about an individual’s unique variations to treat or prevent disease, is changing the future of medicine. Rather than tackling symptoms, precision medicine — sometimes called personalized or individualized medicine — looks at the root cause of illnesses. Some of the information used to determine treatment […]
